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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?
(a) Viscosity.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(d) Physiology.

2. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."
(a) Geologists.
(b) Paleontologists.
(c) Ecologists.
(d) Botanists.

3. When was Steven Smale born?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1943.

4. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?
(a) ProtoLife.
(b) Iterated Systems Incorporated.
(c) Xerox.
(d) IBM.

5. In what year did Benoit Mandelbrot recognize the ghost of an idea when he spotted a diagram charted out on the blackboard in Hendrik Houthakker's office?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?

2. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?

3. What refers to the static or animated 2-D or 3-D visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure, size, history or behavior?

4. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

5. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?

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